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Wantisden

Wantisden is a small village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.

The place

Wantisden is a small village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Largely consisting of a single farm and ancient woodland, most of its 30 residents live on the farm estate. It shares a parish council with nearby Butley and Capel St. Andrew. It has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wantisden

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Butley Priory

    Butley Priory, sometimes called Butley Abbey, was a religious house of Canons regular in Butley, Suffolk, dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary. It was founded in 1171 by Ranulf de Glanville (c.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed building in Suffolk Coastal, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rendlesham Hall

    Rendlesham Hall was a large manor house in the village of Rendlesham in Suffolk.

    3.9 km · manor house in Rendlesham, Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wantisden

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 87 km · London Luton (LTN), 128 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 141 km
  • London, Essex → Wantisden
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
  • London → Wantisden
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
  • Luton, Luton → Wantisden
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wantisden

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wantisden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest station is Butley ferry is an ancient foot ferry to the south of Orford.

From Wikivoyage: Orford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    248 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    270 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    579 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    612 km

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Around it

Next door to Wantisden

  • Tunstallvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.8 km
  • Rendleshamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England3.7 km
  • Capel St Andrewvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK3.4 km
  • Boytonvillage and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, UK4 km
  • Butleyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK400 m
  • Chillesfordvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom2 km